Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted (BSNL), a state-run Indian telecom operator, has been dropping Wi-Fi prospects for years. As soon as hailed because the king of the fastened broadband business, BSNL has receded within the ranks towards the likes of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. BSNL’s whole Wi-Fi customers stood at 4,06,600 for the monetary yr ending March 31, 2024, shared Minister of State for Communications and Rural Improvement, Dr Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on November 27, 2024.
This determine was 10,92,650 for the monetary yr ending March 31, 2020. So in 4 years, BSNL has misplaced a major variety of prospects. Observe that as per TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) knowledge, the whole wired broadband buyer depend for BSNL was 4.23 million on the finish of September 30, 2024. Nonetheless, on the finish of September 30, 2023, BSNL had 3.71 million wired broadband prospects, thus indicating an increase in numbers throughout the present yr. Sure, the numbers right here look a tad bit complicated, regardless, these numbers have been shared by the federal government.
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Within the wireline subscriber section, BSNL had 16.61% of the market share together with MTNL’s 5.61% share. Quite the opposite, Jio had a 40.61% market share and Airtel had a 25.24% share. It’s no shock to anybody that BSNL has been dropping wired broadband subscribers’ market share to the non-public telcos who’ve aggressively laid out optical cable fiber (OFC) and reached extra houses with their fixed-broadband companies.
BSNL provides aggressive broadband plans and bundles of OTT (over-the-top) advantages like non-public telcos. Regardless, the state-run telco has been dropping its edge within the wireline section, and that too when its companies are current PAN-India. BSNL noticed the variety of Wi-Fi prospects rising from 2016 (the yr when Jio got here to the market) until 2020, and since then, the telecom operator has been dropping wired broadband prospects.
